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Abstract works have many uses in design: they can serve as a vibrant desktop background, a mysterious webdesign header or they can be beautiful art pieces by themselves. What’s more, abstract design has many forms, and not too many limitations. You can always come up with new shapes and compositions with combination of various color schemes. You can create them using computer algorithms, putting it on the canvas from pure imagination, or just following a simple pattern you made up in your spare time.

But once you have an idea, it’s always good to know how to actually implement those to get the desired results. This collection of abstract design tutorials will hopefully able to introduce you to some of the skills and techniques commonly used when creating such pieces of artwork and design elements. Enjoy!

Useful Abstract Photoshop Tutorials

Chroma WallpapersThe article shows how to make a great abstract composition combining a 3D-looking base with some additional effects.

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks in PhotoshopVarious lightning effects are important parts of almost every absract design. This tutorial shows you how to use various filters to achieve a nice circular lightning effect and create this stunning image below!

Windows Vista Aurora Effect Photoshop TutorialTutorials on re-creating certain popular and commonly used effects are always popular. This tutorial takes a good look at creating the Windows Vista aurora effect and walks you through step-by-step.

Luminescent LinesLuminescent Lines is another quick and fun tutorial on creating abstract lines and coloring them nicely with layer styles and the use of some brushes.

Making of an Abstract Art Piece: “Lonium”This article is more of a making-of than a tutorial, where the author walks you through the most important phases of creating this amazing abstract artwork. An interesting read nonetheless with lots of ideas for future designs.

Creating SmokeThis tutorial illustrates a quick way to create smoke-like effects with the liquify filter that’ll surely come in handy for many abstract designs.

Lines TutorialA quick and simple tutorial for creating a nice colorful effect, brought to you by Giackop Design.

Creating an Abstract 3D DesignA bit longer and more difficult tutorial to create the image below. If you have the time though, certainly give it a shot!

Really cool Eclipse Effect in PhotoshopThis tutorial with the beautiful outcome below is brought to you yet again by Fabio Sasso. It uses multiple techniques from other tutorials to create this piece that was once used as Abduzeedo’s footer.

Starfield Tileable Twitter Background TutorialIf you’re in need of a cool new twitter background right now, this tutorial is just for you! And if not, it will still give you some ideas and techniqes that you can use in your future works for tilable abstract patterns.

Abstract Visual EffectThe effect below would look just as great as a desktop background as an artwork by itself, but you’ll find in the tutorial that it’s not as complicated as it looks. Make sure you click “next” to read the rest of the tutorial

Wow… Very Creative ideas and design. It’s helps a lot for me as a beginner in photoshop to make a professional design like this. Thanks a lot to all of you guys who shared this very useful tutorial collection. Love you all.